Faucet



May 26, 1.925.

A. C. TYTLER ET AL FAUCET Filed Aug. 13, 1923 Her And 1 E J WSomerz/z'lle INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED o, 'rY'rLEn, or SAN rnANoIsoo, AND JOHN w. sonnavrnrn, oF sANTA CRUZ,

. CALIFORNIA. a

FAUCET.

Application filed August 13, 1923. Serial No. 657,171. H

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED C. TYTLER and JOHN W. SOMERVILLE, citizens of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, and Santa Cruz, in the county of Santa Cruz, respectively, and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our said invention is the provision of a faucet embodying a simple, efficient and easily controlled equipment whereby the faucet may be cut off from a source of fluid supply so as to permit of the faucet or valve being repacked or otherwise repaired without affecting the connec tion between other faucets or valves and the said source of supply.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification 2+- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a faucet or valve embodying our invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional View of the same.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail section taken in the plane indicated by the line 83 of Figure 2.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The body 1 of our novel faucet or valve is in general of the ordinary well known form and construction, being provided with a bonnet 2 and combined with an ordinary stem 3 on which a handle 4 and a head 5, the latter carrying renewable packing 6, attached to the stem in any appropriate manner.

The body 1 is provided with the usual in terior apertured partition 7, and combined with the said body 1 and the said partition 7 are the elements comprised in our novel equipment. The said equipment or improvement comprises an outer apertured barrel 8, an inner apertured barrel 9 arranged and adapted to be turned about its axis in the outer barrel 8, a collar 10, a finger piece 11 complementary to the inner barrel 9 for the convenient turning of the latter and arranged with the collar 10 exteriorly of the body ,1, and a washer 12 interposed between the collar 10 and the lower end of the barrel construction to assure saidconstruetion being air and water tight. The apertures in the barrels 8 and 9 are by preference, of corresponding size to the outlet of the body 1 in order to assure the supply of a full head of water when the inner barrel 9 is placed therefor.

Manifestly when the apertures in the barrels 8 and 9 are in registration a clear passage for water is afforded through the barrels and into the outer portion of the body 1 provided, of course, that the valve head is spaced from its seat. lVhen, however, the inner barrel 9 is turned to close the apertures in the barrels, the supply of fluid to the valve seat will be precluded. From this it follows thatin the last stated position of the inner barrel 9 the bonnet 2 and the stem 3 with the appurtenances of the latter may be conveniently removed from the body 1 for the renewal of packing on the head 5 or for any other purpose. It also follows that the operation indicated may be carried out without the necessity of cutting off the source of fluid supply from valves or faucets other than the one herein illustrated and described.

In practice when it is desired to renew the packing 6 it is simply necessary for the operator to properly turn the barrel 9 through the medium of the finger piece 11 and when it is desired to restore the faucet to operation it will be necessary for the operator through the medium of the finger piece 11 to position the barrel 9 with its aperture in registration with the aperture of the outer barrel 9. It will further be noted that the outer barrel comprised in our improvement constitutes an adequate valve seat.

Notwithstanding the practical merit of our improvement it will be apparent that the improvement adds but little to the cost of anordinary faucet or valve.

lVe have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and referred embodiment of our invention in order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of the said embodiment. o do not desire, however, to be understood as confining ourselves to the specific construction and relative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various changes and modifications may be made such as fall within the scope of our invention. as defined in our appended claim,

Hawpi 11g? described our; inventiom 1 what we cl'a-im='and desire to secure by Letters-Pabof-t-he inner barrel and threaded on the outer ent, is

-:.;--1In'a=:-faucet or':'v=alve,-=thecombination o abody, a stem working 111 the body-randequipped with a head, inner and outer apertured barrels arranged in the body fotthe control of the passage of fluidpast thesalne, one of the barrels-c0nstitutinga seat and the other and inner .barrel having means exterior of the bodyior the turning there of, a flanged collar on the BXtGllOl portion barrel,- andpaoking -eonfined in said collar and against the outer barrel.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signa- W tures.

*ALFRED C. TYTLER.

JOHN V. SOMERVILLE. 

